Promoting health with campus substance use policy

Promoting Health with

Campus Substance Use Policy

Dan Reist, CARBC

Tim Dyck, CARBC

A Framework

for Thought and Action

First,

in a series of 4

discussion papers

A framework for thought and action

The Okanagan Charter understands health promotion

as endeavors that

enable people to increase control over their health

and the factors that influence it

move beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a

wide range of social and environmental interventions



HP Orientation Determinants Focus Interventions

Behaviour/lifestyle change

Individual health behaviour

Individual attitudes, beliefs

and behaviour

Active (requireaction on part of

target population)

Environmental enhancement

Physical and social environment

Environmental hygiene/safety and

social supportsPassive

Socio-ecological approach

Fit betweenindividual needs

and environmental resources available

Integration of behavioural and environmental

strategies

Combination of active and passive

Adapted from Stokols. (1996). Translating social ecological theory into guidelines for community health promotion. Am J of Health Promotion 10, 287.

Socio-ecological: fit between

individual needs and environmental

resources available

Bruce Alexander: “profound

interdependence between individual

and society”


If your campus is an ecosystem and members of the campus community each need to find a balance between vital but competing needs, what does health promotion look like? Feel like?


When you start to think of benefit and risk as intersecting factors, what new insights or questions emerge?


In the policy sphere…

… how can we respond when

community views compete

with expert advice?

… how can power be used to

support empowerment and

health?


Forthcoming CCSU discussion papers will

address three interdependent,

complementary policy domains.

Thank you!

Tim Dyck: [email protected]

Dan Reist: [email protected]

Changing the Culture of Substance Use

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